Honestly, I thought my inspiration was all dried up... I just needed a better reason to create this weeks DnD Character Colouring Book.
So... Lucky has gone back in the toy box. He will come out at some point, I want to play a character who is deeply connected to the Feywild quite a lot, plus there are a lot of things about him I still love.
But I also knew that the rest of the Thursday group would, very likely, not bother creating a backstory that is connected to the world. Which is fair, they're not as connected to the world we'll be playing in as much as I am. However, that left me with an issue. As much as I loved Lucky, he also wasn't connected to the world.
And I wondered what my version of that character would look like. I'd messed around with a couple of ideas previously, but none of those were sticking in my head.
Which brings us to Dax Oreva, an Eye of the Raven.
I also still really want to play a half-orc... it's the only race out of the Player's Handbook that I haven't played (as I've mentioned before), so I'd like to get them all in at least once before the new edition of DnD comes out in 2024.
He also had to be a rogue, because I still want to revisit a rogue with this next character. And the Inquisitive Rogue is interesting.
The rest of him kind of came out of putting his costume together. Using the top that has the raven skull baked in led me down a particular path, which resulted in the pauldrons (which is an element I ignore pretty much 80% of the time), and then led to changing his colour scheme from dark brown to dark blue.
One of the issues I have with half-orc characters, even with the general softening of all things orc in recent years is having that human parent/orc parent thing... so I did what I've done in the past with half-elves. A half-elf as a product of two half-orcs. At some point in his lineage there was a human and an orc... but for some time it's been half-orcs. Which nicely sidesteps the whole issue.
Weirdly, the personality really came into focus when I started playing around with the posing and tried to find a "hands resting in front" pose. When I got that right, I got more of who he was. Talking to DM Fluffy about him on Friday brought more of him into focus.
And, of course, a PC's personality never survives first contact with the table, but I see him as someone who never completely fit in anywhere... not in his family, not in the wider religion of his people, not in his country, and then when he left that, not even if the path he thought he wanted to follow. But now he's found a place, has made himself comfortable there, so now it's time to start thinking about the next step.
But of course, because story and drama, he has to go back to his country for this adventure.
I feel like he's quite dry and a little deadpan/sarcastic in his humour. But not unintentionally. He's just dry. That's going to be harder to do in the moment, although I can be a little deadpan at times.
I also went a slightly different path with the name this time... rather than an existing name that just means something, I went for words in another language that mean what I wanted them to mean, and then followed that up with his parents' and sister's names. All similarly related terms.
I'll do the final polish on him after next week when we do our Session Zero (more on that shortly), but I'm liking this new direction.
Anyway.
I made a pretty decent tuna mornay this week. Spicy without being obnoxious... and I discovered that dill is an excellent addition.
Tuesday was something different... Everything Everywhere All At Once is back in theatres for a limited run, and I wanted to see it on the big screen, plus I wanted Ma to see it. But it was only screening in the afternoons and evening for the most part. So, instead of doing it on Saturday, Ma came down on Tuesday morning and we went to a lunchtime session.
I was more aware of the length of the movie this time around, honestly... and maybe the end part is a little long... but it still made me cry and I still love it.
Thursday DnD we finally finished off the book/series of adventures that we started back in May last year. So, 1 year, 2 months, 20 days. If you discount the two months between Christmas and February that we didn't play because of my moving drama. And the weeks we've missed because people were sick, or otherwise engaged or somebody was a close contact or something.
Basically for the most part, the adventures have taken us two weeks to complete, and there are 17 adventures. So out of just over 63 weeks, there were 34 weeks-ish of actual game play.
We bid farewell, for now, to Canadia, the guy who joined us from my former Monday group, which brings us back to a more sensible six players. And to Dax. Given that he's the character for the new campaign. And, provided nobody gets sick or has to change plans at the last minute, we're doing Session Zero for that next week.
Friday night DnD was... somewhat short and sweet. And I'm subtitling this one "Bargains with Bavlorna".
I wasn't sure how long things were going to actually go... they were at a potential crossroads, but they rolled well and made short work of things. So, they got to bargain with Hag #1, she also gave them a little bit of information... and a little bit of prevarication... and a little bit of obfuscation. Because, obviously, hag.
It was also fun giving them little bits of information and then watching them wildly theorise possible outcomes and narratives.
They also got some respite at a travelling inn (with feet), before we ended the session with a round of dreams for everyone (not going to lie... it's some of the most fun stuff... especially Fluffy's "lucid dreams") and then they got to the next major location and levelled up. Again. After levelling up last week.
Yeah, the levelling scheme in this book is weird. But I wasn't sure how much fluffing around they were going to do, so I thought that possibly I might have been able to make another session out of it. But no.
I'm actually pretty excited about this next area. It will mean a bunch more prep this week, but it's something very different from where they were.
Anyway...
Today we went to the supermarket.
Then I made fun of the Royal Show magazine that we picked up at said supermarket for... entirely too long. Seriously, though, it was so very badly written.
And then Ma went home. Full stop.
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